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It’s been a four-year battle to allow students without legal status to work at California’s public colleges. The Legislature passed another bill to allow this. Newsom vetoed it last time. What will he do now?

Zelensky warns every airline using Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone using key Russian airports: Russian skies are becoming completely unsafe. Ukraine says it doesn't threaten civilian aviation, but "drones in Russian skies will be such that this must be taken into account." He warns Russian airspace "will de facto be closed — the war Russia started is closing its skies." Ukraine's foreign ministry will brief international bodies. "There are no more safe moments in Russian skies. Civilian aviation has no place among drones."

The House voted Tuesday to pass a short-term funding bill and avert a government shutdown at the end of September, keeping money flowing at current levels until Dec. 11. The legislation, which has already passed the Senate, sailed through the chamber by a vote of 370-48. It now goes to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it. That would take the biggest legislative item off the to-do list for Congress ahead of the elections Nov. 3, punting stalled negotiations over a full-year funding deal until after the midterms. The two parties have clashed over the scope of federal...

The left-wing Guardian newspaper documented how “pro-choice militants” conducted terroristic attempts at intimidation from New York and North Carolina to Wisconsin, Texas and Washington state in recent years. “The methods have been extreme,” the report noted; “vandals have thrown Molotov cocktails, committed arson, damaged property and made threats.” Jane’s Revenge issued a statement demanding “anti-choice establishments” shut down in 30 days or face further violence. That was in 2022 — yet the group continued operating, until its website went dark just days ago thanks to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on terrorist infrastructure. Jane’s Revenge and various other radical organizations, including...

Earlier this month, a study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It was called “Patient-Reported Experiences of Abortion Travel.” Researchers interviewed patients who traveled to Illinois for abortions. Illinois Abortion Law In Illinois, abortion is available without any restrictions until viability. After viability, it is legal if any doctor, including the one committing the abortion, states that it’s necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health. Illinois law defines “health” as “all factors that are relevant to the patient’s health and well-being, including, but not limited to, physical, emotional, psychological and familial health and age.”...

The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday after it said Tehran tried to attack commercial ships and American forces in the Middle East, as hostilities flare once again in an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months. The U.S. strikes, and others on Sunday, abruptly ended a month without military action and threatens to fully reprise a conflict that has spiked global oil prices and posed political problems for Republicans in November’s midterm congressional elections. The renewed fighting comes after President Donald Trump had appeared to pivot toward trying to bend Iran to his will through...

This video features Elon Musk speaking at the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he discusses the future of artificial intelligence, robotics, and global infrastructure. Key takeaways include: Regulatory Approach (0:00–1:35): Musk advocates for making emerging technologies "default legal" rather than "default illegal," arguing that excessive regulation—especially in the EU—slows down innovation and unfairly favors established companies over startups. Economic Impact of AI (2:30–5:10): He predicts that AI could increase the global economy by 20% to 30%. He specifically notes that AI will likely master digital and software tasks at a "Stockfish level" (superior to humans) within...

Police officers responded to the area at around 3:30 p.m. on Friday. According to a report by mynewsla.com, a witness saw the man “hunkered down” and approaching people to smell them. . . Police were also dispatched to a nearby clothing store near South Brand Boulevard and East Broadway regarding a similar report. At that location, police reviewed surveillance video and identified Crowder as the suspect in the incident after it showed him allegedly engaged in similar offensive “sniffing” behavior. . . According to the officers, Crowder was observed and captured on video as he crouched behind the female customer...

Sports analyst Stephen A. Smith apologized for condemning NBA basketball player Kyrie Irving for refusing to get the covid vaccine during the pandemic, saying "like most people, I thought Dr. Fauci and President Biden were looking out for the American people. All the major media were saying that the vaccines were safe and effective and that folks who didn't get vaccinated were endangering the health of others for resisting the pressure to get vaccinated. Now I realize that we were all wrong." "When Dr. Fauci testified in Congress last month I expected him to apologize for his mistakes during the...

TCU receiver Dozie Ezukanma was hospitalized for three days due to a brain bleed, a concussion and other injuries after then-teammate Jacob Fields allegedly assaulted him in the locker room, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by Fort Worth Star Telegram. Fields, who was arrested Sunday, was allegedly not happy that Ezukanma was outplaying him in practice, which resulted in the alleged altercation. The transfer from Louisiana Tech was dismissed from the team on Aug. 18, and was recently charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury after turning himself in. Fields was released later Sunday from the Tarrant...

The governor directed state insurance regulators to crack down on certain underwriting practices and pursue measures aimed at lowering costs.“The average annual homeowners insurance premium in Texas has risen 79 percent in six years,” said Abbott. “High insurance costs hit Texas families hard. Today I direct the Texas Department of Insurance to put consumers first and take action that makes property and casualty insurance more affordable.”In a letter sent Monday to Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford, Abbott noted that the average annual homeowners insurance premium has climbed from under $2,000 in 2020 to more than $3,500 in 2026.Abbott directed the...

In their collective Trump Derangement, the Elitist Media will grab and hold on to anything they can in order to claw their way back to Regime Media in service of Democrats in power. Most egregious of these are the Hall Monitor subset, who will seemingly defend anyone and anything standing opposite a Republican.This means that America is subjected to Oliver Darcy hysterically howling in protest because the Bari Weiss-led CBS News had the temerity to point out that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed deleted a series of social media posts evoking the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. What...

Will Letitia James face any consequences for using the Attorney General's office to persecute political opponents? Or will voters in New York reward her for doing, well, pretty much what she explicitly promised to accomplish?I know which way I'm betting.Two days ago, one of James' assistant AGs went public to accuse her of ordering political vendettas, almost all of them without cause. The New York Post's editorial board called Daniel Wiesenfeld "the Whistleblower of the Year," but perhaps he might end up as the Jeremiah of the Empire State. Make no mistake, though – these allegations would certainly be abuses...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial announced Tuesday that they are deadlocked — but the judge sent them back to deliberate more. The 12-person jury – made up of nine women and three men – told Judge William Sullivan that they could not agree on whether to convict Clancy, 36, of three counts of first-degree murder after almost 18 hours of deliberation. “I’ve got your question and the question is: ‘After many hours of deliberation we are unable to come to a unanimous decision’,” the judge said. “I brought you back out because I know that this was a long...

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Ursula von der Leyen has put a figure on Europe’s financial problem: €10 trillion. Last week, speaking to French business leaders gathered by Medef (Mouvement des entreprises de France—France’s leading employers’ organisation) in Paris, the Commission president lamented that such a large share of European household savings remains in bank deposits. “Unfortunately, these savings are lazy,” she said, before arguing that Europe needs to put that money “at the service of its companies.” For now, there is no plan to confiscate deposits or withdraw money from individual bank accounts. Brussels’ proposal is different and, precisely for that reason, more politically...

PROVO, Utah — Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson returns to a Utah courtroom Tuesday for a hearing that could send his case to trial or dramatically reshape it, with a judge to weigh whether prosecutors have shown enough probable cause to support the aggravated murder charge that puts the death penalty on the table — and the suspect may finally be asked to enter a plea nearly a year after the slaying. Robinson, a 23-year-old from Washington, Utah, is accused of firing a single shot that killed the 31-year-old father of two during a Turning Point USA event at...

According to media reports, a key installation near the Jänschwalde coal plant in Brandenburg was repeatedly targeted with rockets, which emergency crews later found and defused. Several improvised explosive devices were found at a substation near a coal-fired power plant in Germany on Tuesday and several power lines were damaged, police and a grid operator said. Operator 50Hertz said there was a "brief interruption of service" but all lines are now back in operation at the Preilack substation, which distributes power from the nearby Jänschwalde power plant. Police said no one was hurt. The apparent aim was to trigger a...

California lawmakers are poised to set aside $20 million in transportation funds this year for current and former state elected officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, if they need state highway patrol officers to serve as their personal security detail.

The NYPD is investigating a fatal police shooting that occurred in Times Square on Monday afternoon. Officers responded to West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue just after 4:20 p.m. after receiving a call about "a woman armed with two knives who was stabbing people along Seventh Avenue," Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at an evening news conference. The suspect, identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens, was killed by police. A female stabbing victim, identified as Erin Piacenti, later died at the hospital, police said. A male stabbing victim remains hospitalized. Tisch characterized the incident as an "unprovoked double stabbing,"...